Win 8 consumer preview

installed windows 8 consumer preview..... First look has the wow feeling!!!!!!!

Read Configuration file (Web resource - Data (Xml)...

Read Configuration file (Web resource - Data (Xml)...: Sometimes, we would like to read data of configuration file which has been added as web resource of type Data (Xml) in Dynamic CRM. In t...

CRM 2011 Prefiltering

Use Filters in a Report:

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Sort an array of JavaScript / JSON objects

OpenNTF XSnippets - Code Snippets for IBM XPages Development: "myObjectArray.sortByField("name");"

'via Blog this'

Get User Security Roles in Jscript

function GetAllSystemRoles() {
    var serverUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl();

    var oDataEndpointUrl = serverUrl + "/XRMServices/2011/OrganizationData.svc/";
    oDataEndpointUrl += "RoleSet";
    var service = GetRequestObject();
    if (service != null) {
   
    service.open("GET", oDataEndpointUrl, false);
    service.setRequestHeader("X-Requested-Width", "XMLHttpRequest");
    service.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json, text/javascript, */*");
    service.send(null);

    var requestResults = eval('(' + service.responseText + ')').d;
    return requestResults;
    }
}


function GetRoleIdByName(allsecurityRoles,rolename) {
    if (allsecurityRoles != null && allsecurityRoles.results.length > 0) {
        for (var i = 0; i < allsecurityRoles.results.length; i++) {
            var role = allsecurityRoles.results[i];
            if (role.Name == rolename) {
                id = role.RoleId;
                return id;
            }

        }
    }
    return null;
}

function UserHasRole(allsecurityRoles) {
    debugger;
    var nsrApprovedPrivilage = new Array("Pricing Analyst", "TSC", "Pricing Team manager", "TSC Manager", "Sales Manager - Direct", "Sales Manager - Telesales", "Sales Manager - Winback", "General Manager - Direct", "TSM");
    for (var j = 0; j < nsrApprovedPrivilage.length; j++) {
        var id = GetRoleIdByName(allsecurityRoles, nsrApprovedPrivilage[j]);
        var currentUserRoles = Xrm.Page.context.getUserRoles();
        for (var i = 0; i < currentUserRoles.length; i++) {
            var userRole = currentUserRoles[i];
            if (GuidsAreEqual(userRole, id)) {
                return true;
            }
        }
    }
   return false;
}

function GetRequestObject() {
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        return new window.XMLHttpRequest;
    }
    else {
        try {
            return new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0");
        }
        catch (ex) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

function GuidsAreEqual(guid1, guid2) {
    var isEqual = false;

    if (guid1 == null || guid2 == null) {
        isEqual = false;
    }
    else {
        isEqual = guid1.replace(/[{}]/g, "").toLowerCase() == guid2.replace(/[{}]/g, "").toLowerCase();
    }

    return isEqual;
}



function CheckIfUserCanApprove() {
    debugger;
    var hasPrivilagesToApprove = UserHasRole(GetAllSystemRoles());
    if (hasPrivilagesToApprove) {
        alert("hasPrivilagesToApprove");
    }
    else {
        alert("does not have hasPrivilagesToApprove");
    }
}


Add the list of security roles in nsrApprovedPrivilage array to check if user has that particular role

CRM 2011 Convert EntityCollection to DataTable

public DataTable convertEntityCollectionToDataTable(EntityCollection BEC)
        {
            DataTable dt = new DataTable();
            int total = BEC.Entities.Count;
            for (int i = 0; i < total; i++)
            {
                DataRow row = dt.NewRow();
                Entity myEntity = (Entity)BEC.Entities[i];
                var keys= myEntity.Attributes.Keys;
                foreach (var item in keys)
           {
                    string columnName = item;
                    string value = getValuefromAttribute(myEntity.Attributes[item]);
                    if (dt.Columns.IndexOf(columnName) == -1)
                    {
                        dt.Columns.Add(item, Type.GetType("System.String"));
                    }
                    row[columnName] = value;
                }
                dt.Rows.Add(row);
            }
            return dt;
        }

        private string getValuefromAttribute(object p)
        {
            if (p.ToString() == "Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.EntityReference")
            {
                return ((EntityReference)p).Name;
            }
            if (p.ToString() == "Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OptionSetValue")
            {
                return ((OptionSetValue)p).Value.ToString();
            }
            if (p.ToString() == "Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.Money")
            {
                return ((Money)p).Value.ToString();
            }
            if (p.ToString() == "Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.AliasedValue")
            {
                return ((Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.AliasedValue)p).Value.ToString();
            }
            else
            {
                return p.ToString();
            }
        }

code that can retrieve total number of your desired entity

 code that can retrieve total number of your desired entity and return this as int
///

/// Gets the supplied entity count from CRM 2011.
///

/// "Service">The CRM 2011 service.
/// "EntityName">Name of the entity we need get count of.
/// "ServicePageSize">Size of the page (optional).
///
private int GetEntityCount(IOrganizationService Service, string EntityName, int ServicePageSize = 5000)
{
RetrieveMultipleResponse retrieved;
int PageNumber = 1;
string PagingCookie = string.Empty;
int PageSize = ServicePageSize;

do {
QueryExpression query = new QueryExpression() {
EntityName = EntityName,
//ColumnSet = new ColumnSet(Columns),
PageInfo = new PagingInfo() {
PageNumber = 1,
Count = PageSize
}
};

if (PageNumber != 1) {
query.PageInfo.PageNumber = PageNumber;
query.PageInfo.PagingCookie = PagingCookie;
}

RetrieveMultipleRequest retrieve = new RetrieveMultipleRequest();
retrieve.Query = query;
retrieved = (RetrieveMultipleResponse)Service.Execute(retrieve);

if (retrieved.EntityCollection.MoreRecords) {
PageNumber++;
PagingCookie = retrieved.EntityCollection.PagingCookie;
}
} while (retrieved.EntityCollection.MoreRecords);

return ((PageNumber - 1) * PageSize) + retrieved.EntityCollection.Entities.Count;
}